{"id":2513,"date":"2010-12-17T11:22:31","date_gmt":"2010-12-17T10:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/?p=2513"},"modified":"2011-10-18T11:22:27","modified_gmt":"2011-10-18T10:22:27","slug":"2012-olympics-good-for-new-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2010\/12\/17\/2012-olympics-good-for-new-music\/","title":{"rendered":"2012 Olympics: good for new music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newmusic20x12.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Twenty composers have recently been announced <\/a>for the &#8216;New Music 20 x 12&#8217; initiative, unveiled as part of the 2012 Cultural Olympiad.<\/p>\n<p>Each commissioned piece will last twelve minutes, and be broadcast on Radio 3 and toured around the UK.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative has been created independently, and is delivered by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prsformusicfoundation.com\/newmusic20x12\/about.htm\" target=\"_blank\">PRS for Music Foundation<\/a> and partners. Composers involved include Julian Joseph, Mark-Anthony Turnage, Jason Yarde, Anna Meredith and Howard Skempton.<\/p>\n<p>Whether you think the Olympics is a good or a bad thing for the UK, here at least is a sign that it will have a beneficial effect on the cultural life of the country.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"kent-social-links\"><li><a href='http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2010\/12\/17\/2012-olympics-good-for-new-music\/&amp;t=2012 Olympics: good for new music' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-facebook' title='Share via Facebook'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=2012 Olympics: good for new music%20https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2010\/12\/17\/2012-olympics-good-for-new-music\/' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-twitter' title='Share via Twitter'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2010\/12\/17\/2012-olympics-good-for-new-music\/' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-google-plus' title='Share via Google Plus'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&amp;url=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2010\/12\/17\/2012-olympics-good-for-new-music\/&amp;title=2012 Olympics: good for new music' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-linkedin' title='Share via Linked In'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='mailto:content=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2010\/12\/17\/2012-olympics-good-for-new-music\/&amp;title=2012 Olympics: good for new music' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-email' title='Share via Email'><\/i><\/a><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty composers have recently been announced for the &#8216;New Music 20 x 12&#8217; initiative, unveiled as part of the 2012 Cultural Olympiad. Each commissioned piece will last twelve minutes, and be broadcast on Radio 3 and toured around the UK. The initiative has been created independently, and is delivered by the PRS for Music Foundation &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2010\/12\/17\/2012-olympics-good-for-new-music\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">2012 Olympics: good for new music<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":620,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1310],"tags":[1492,1152,930],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/620"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2513"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3177,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513\/revisions\/3177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}